Thanks to the reader who sent me this one. Keep them coming.
Thank you Mr. Glenn
John Glenn (DEMOCRAT) said this.. It should make us all think a little:
There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January.
In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American
city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.
When some claim that President Bush shouldn't have started this war, tell them
the following:
FDR (DEMOCRAT) led us into World War II.
Germany never attacked us; Japan did.
From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were
lost ... an average of 112,500 per year.
Truman (DEMOCRAT) finished that war and started one in Korea. North Korea
never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ... an average of
18,334 per year.
John F. Kennedy (DEMOCRAT) started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson (DEMOCRAT) turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost ... an average of 5,800 per year.
Clinton (DEMOCRAT) went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.
Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter
three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple
occasions.
In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two
countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in
Libya, Iran, and, North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist
who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.? And the Democrats are complaining
about how long the war is taking.
But Wait, There's more.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno (DEMOCRAT) to take the
Branch Davidian compound That was a 51-day operation
We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in Iraq for less time
than it took Hillary Clinton (DEMOCRAT) to find the Rose law firm billing
records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy
the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after
his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.?
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!
The Military morale is high!
The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.
But Wait ....... There's more!
JOHN GLENN (on the Senate floor - January 26, 2004)
Some people still don't understand why? military personnel
do what they do for a living. This exchange between
Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum
is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive
impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one
man's explanation of why men and women in the armed
services do what they do for a living.
This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served
think of the military
Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
'How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real job?'
Senator Glenn (D-Ohio): 'I served 23 years in the United States Marine
Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by
anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It
wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a
nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the
bank.'
'I ask you to go with me, as I went the other day ... to a veteran's hospital
and look those men .. with their mangled bodies .. in the eye, and tell THEM
they didn't hold a job!
You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the
widows and Orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee ... and you look
those kids in the eye and tell them that their DAD'S didn't hold a job.
You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery,
where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those
waving flags.
You stand there, and you think about this nation, and you have the gall to
tell ME that those people didn't have a job?
What about Metzenbaum?'
For those who don't remember, during W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney
representing the Communist Party in the USA.
Now he's a Senator!?
To top it off have you ever noticed that Obama is so rude and disrespectful
that he can't call President Bush, President Bush? He always calls him George
Bush, he is his boss and he should respect him even if he doesn't like him, he
is teaching the people and youth of this nation to be rude and disrespectful and
people want someone like this in office?? What do you think he's going to do if
he does get into office?? People you need to wake up!!
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.
Let Me Count the Ways
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He's wrong on the start of US involvment in the Viet Nam war. This is from Wikepedia.
1 November 1955 — Eisenhower deploys the Military Assistance Advisory Group to train the ARVN (South Vietnamese Army). This marks the official beginning of American involvement in the war as recognized by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.[3]
As to Bush, he should have been impeached for lying about this war, for throwing a CIA operative under the bus and then covering it up, to only name a few reasons.
Wikipedia is fun, and often accurate, but let's get it straight:
Kennedy authorized the "Advisors" to shoot at NVA. Not Ike.
Did you get the "Bush Lied" mis-information from Wiki, too?
Don't waste your time with this nonsense Art. Why don't you tellus how Obama is a Muslim and the Clinton's had hundreds of people killed?
Check out snopes.com it's a good site for verifying stuff like this.
The exchange between Glenn and Metzenbaum took place when they were both running for the Senate in the late 60's-early 70's. Neither one is still a Senator and Glenn was gone before 2004.
I get e-mails like this all the time. I like coming to your blog because you don't resort to this sort of thing.
Lugar96
Hey Barry, check your history book. This from PBS..who I'm sure you will discount as a "liberal" outlet..but nonetheless, its still true.
"According to the terms of the Geneva Accords, Vietnam would hold national elections in 1956 to reunify the country. The division at the seventeenth parallel, a temporary separation without cultural precedent, would vanish with the elections. The United States, however, had other ideas. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles did not support the Geneva Accords because he thought they granted too much power to the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Instead, Dulles and President Dwight D. Eisenhower supported the creation of a counter-revolutionary alternative south of the seventeenth parallel. The United States supported this effort at nation-building through a series of multilateral agreements that created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
South Vietnam Under Ngo Dinh Diem
Using SEATO for political cover, the Eisenhower administration helped create a new nation from dust in southern Vietnam. In 1955, with the help of massive amounts of American military, political, and economic aid, the Government of the Republic of Vietnam (GVN or South Vietnam) was born."
Once again nothing is learned from history.
What happened when we pulled out of Vietnam because of stupid politicians and a niave and cowardly bunch of college students and leftist radicals.
The communists won and we got
boat people and re-education camps in Vietnam and a genocide of unimanigable magnitude in Cambodia. The USA has never admitted it but that blood is on our hands because we cut and run.
Guess what will happen if we cut and run in Iraq.
I am proud that we removed a brutal tyrant from Iraq when nobody else had the balls to do it and I am proud that we are fighting to make Iraq a democracy.
The world is a better place for it and we are safer as a result.
And yes Ambrosia I have sons and one of them is nearing military age. I love him more then anything in the world and I want him to be safe but if he decides on entering the military (and he might) I will be damned proud of him.
Son of Liberty
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